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314 Leading Events of English History .
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Z ) r . yacks < m ~ yamcs Simmonds > Esq . M . P . — W . Preston ,. £ sg .
4 i Ja n . 2 > at Verdun in France , where lie was a prisoner of war , of a putrid ( ever , Dr . JACKSON , an English physician of great eminence and worth . His funeral was attended by all his fellow-countrvmeri who are prisoners
of war , as well as hy the medical gentlemen and inhabitants of Verdun , whose esteem and friendship he had gained hy the benevolence which he displayed towards the unfortunate of cvsry description . He delighted . to rescue the wretched from the bed of sickness and afford them both medical and pecuniary assistance . "
Jan . 22 , in London , JAMES SIMMONDS , Esq . M . P . for Canterbury , in '\ vhie ! i city he was born in 1740 . Having hen an apprentice and trader in ' . London , he returned to his native place in 1768 , when he established the first Printing Office in the county of Kent . He was a steady opposer of the American war , and so became a fivourite of the Rockingham party , who when in power in 1783 , ap ~ , pointed him distiibutor of Stamps , an office of considerable emolument .
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Mr . S . employed his increasing property in a very public-spirited manner . He introduced many improvements into his native city , and established in its neighbourhood a large
flourmill w . th the design , which he ac"complished , of keeping down the price of bread . As President of the Guardians of the Poor , " he introduced a manufactory for weaving , and thus employed and supported a large number of indjeent children .
His fellow-citizens in testimony of their regard to his public services , e ' ected' him their Representative in the present Parliament , an honour which he survived only a few weeks . Feb . 2 , in Dublin , WLLIJAM PRESTON , Esq . Barrister at Law , trie well-known poet—a man of great
gcniu- ; , of constant activity of mind , and of the most amiable disposition . His " Poetical Wo ks ' were published together in 2 vols . 8 vo . at Dublin in 1794 . Many of his later poems full of feeling and fancy , have been printed in the Poetical Register , of which the fifth volume contains two or three . CYas . Lit .
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exposition of the whole of the Old Testament ; " and of his having been u afflicted far a series of twenty years" with the stone-, and confined to his bed by it during the last " one and twenty months " of his life . Aft ^ r his death , a
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stone was tak&i from him , ihensuring three inches in lengthy and five inches in circumference , weighing three ounces and one dram , and sharpened in some parts * with very rpugh protuberances .
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Art- V . —Brief Memoirs of the Leading Events of Eng + fish History ; / or the JJse of Young Persons . 12 mo . pp . 144- 2 s . Crosby and Co . 1806 . . , _
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The History of England is an important study for British youth 9 and we gladly recommend this work as a faithful and elegant epitome of English history . It is pity that authors of such useful books as this before us should
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conceal their names , and thus shrink from the praise which is their just due , and deprive their labours of the recommendation which real and respectable namei- always carry with them *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/46/
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